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Showjumping | International Showjumping - CSI 1* YH - CSIO 5* Gijón | WED30JUL-MON04AUG | Las Mestas | The winner of the last class of the third day, sponsored by
Sony Vodafone, turned out to be Laura Renwick and her mare ‘Beluga’. She
recorded 75.45 seconds. It was her third triumph in Gijón

After giving last year more relevance to documentaries again, in Gran Angular, the festival goes a step further and creates a new competition section called DocuFICX, consisting of six nonfiction films telling stories of very different origins and competing for a 5,000 euros prize.

Nacho Carballo, director of Gijon International Film Festival, and Jorge Ivan Argiz, programmer, presented this morning at a press conference the full list of films in the Official Section of feature and short films and those in the Documentary competition section DocuFICX. In the presentation, Carballo said Gijón becomes, once again, in "the capital of independent films."